Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-10
poJ'S, a0d he advantages gained will be
ii favor Of Colorado and Texas.
Er-Tr-PE

Then, too, Will one witness 10 Texas
end Colorado the development OF large
manufacturing interests that are now
| confined almost exclusively TO the terri
| tory cat OF the Mississippi. There is no
reason in the world why cotton, for in
stance, should be shipped to eastern fac
tories, and Why the manufactured pro-
duct should be returned St an Increased
| price, on account Of freight both ways,
80 Texas snd other points west and south
west. The same msy be said of sugar
and leather. These staples should be re
hled or prepared and manufactured in
! the west, and the prepondereting sdvant-
ages, es far as production and manutac-
ture are concerned, are decidedly Is favor
OF Texas and Colorado.
Why should not Colorado, for example,
supply 81 the iron end steel needed not
only villain her own boundaries, but
also throughout the entire southwest?
1t is not certainly because she has not the
natural advantages that would enable
her 10 do so. She has, as is well known,
he finest iron ore and the finest coal in
The country, and Just where it is needed
IS found the bes. kind Of limestone for
smelling purposes. There is no legiti
mate reason why Pueblo and Denver
should not take the place Of Pittsburg,
CLEVELAND, Chicago ard ST. Louis in sup
plying al the hardware snd machinery
nj railroad appliances needed in Texas
and the country adjoining, as well IS the
country tributary to Denver and lying to
tue west, north and east. If the
interstate commerce law is carried
out as it should be respecting the trans
port2tion Of iron and steel products, this
desired result-the inauguration CT eX-
rensive rolling mills aud large iron and
steel industries-Wil follow as @ neCes-
sary consequence, and follow, it must
needs be, without delay. Capitalists, it
seems to me, cannot longer afford to
overlook these rich, promising opportu-
mites, and ell the indications are that
! both Colorado and Texas will soon be
must soon be-the great western Centers
of extensive and varied manufactures.
| The great staples of Texas, cotton, wool,
sugar, hides-wiu be converted into
manufactured products within its own
boundaries or in the future factories of
/ Colorado and the paper, glass, queens
ware, etc, now brought from the east
will become the products of local indus
tries. The success Of various recent en-
terprises in this direction can leave no
doubt about what the future will give 20
those who will and dare.
AN EXCHANGE or CLIMATE.
But there is yet more to &c said of the
advantages aCcruing from a shorter
means OF communication between Texas
and Colorado. Te3as-and what is said
of Texss can with equal truth be said Of
/ Arkansas, LOuisiana and other southern
states-wantS cow 5nieEt GUNNER resorts,
and Colorado and the adj AGENT territories
want some easily accessible place where
! her people can, if they wish, spend the
winter. Now, Colorado is destined to
! become the long desired Mecca OF
southern tourists, and the beautiful towns
slong the Gulf coast are just as sure to
be the favorite winter resorts for invalids
and pleasure seekers from the north.
l have often been surprised in my
travels over the country to see how little
is known of Colorado and the wonderful
attractions it offers to tourists and to
seekers after health and pleasure, but
nowhere have | been more surprised than
here in Texas. The little that is known
and that, TOO, by a people that want
lust what Colorado is SO we'll able to give
is simply astonishing. l venture to say
when easier and shorter means of com
muniCstion are afforded, and when some
thing is known Of your many wonderful
mineral springs and many charming and
invigorating health resorts, Colorado will
have more visitors from Texas alone
than she mas hitherto had from al the
other states put together. And this state
ment, startling IS 1t may appear, | make
advlsedly and with the assurance that It
will be fully verified in the no distant fu-
ture.
4 VALUABLE SUCCESSION,
In this connection | may be permitted
to observe it has often appeared to me
that it would be wise move if Colora %
would establish something like state
board OF advertising, to make known to
tie country at large its wonderful re
sources and uniC u attractions 1t would,
l an confident, prove magnificent in
vestment. Colorado, all that may be said
to the contrary Notwithstanding, is not
sufficiently and properly known. 1t is
still, and to much greater extent than
Coloradoans would like to believe, re-
garded as section Of the wild west, and
not few OF the reports that tend to con-
firm the public in this wrong impression
are circulated, unintentional it may be,
by those whose interest it should be TO
suppress them.
In saying that the state is not sufi-
GENTLY known l simply declare what
must have occurred to every Coloradoan
who has travelled TO any extent through
ether parts Of the Union, especially in the
south ani cast.
Take the hot aud mineral springs OF
! Colorado for instance, and how little is
| known about them outside of the state.
Maaitou, indeed, has something of
reputation, and not an inconsiderGble
number ofpeople have, during the past
few years, visited this delightful noun
tain retreat. But it is not known as it
should be. There should be q score Of
visitors to The one that is now found
there, end the hotels and accommods-
tions should be as grand and as luxur-
ioualy furnished as are any CT those of
the fashionable summer resorts of the
east.
WHAT OUGHT TO BE,
The tide Of travel that for generations
past has been directed to Europe andno-
tsbly to Switzerland snd to the White
mountains and the watering places along
the Atlsntic should be, and could be, st
least in a measure, diverted toward the
numerous and wonderful health resorts
of the Rockies. Idaho Springs, White
Sulphur Springs, Gleuwood Springs,
Wagon Wheel Gap. uartzal Hot Springs